Loving Sisters!!

Natalie acting like her Uncle Den!!

Attention Fellow Bloggers !!

We have a new Blogger in the ranks!!!!

Susan has started a blog that will mainly follow the antics of her Third Grade Class.
Check it out: http://talesofthirdgrade.blogspot.com/

Merry Christmas !!!

... to all, and to all a good night,
and may Santa fit down your chimney all right !!!

A Christmas Story for people having a bad day!

When four of Santa's elves got sick, the trainee elves
did not produce toys as fast as the regular ones, and
Santa began to feel the Pre-Christmas pressure.
Then Mrs Claus told Santa her Mother was coming
to visit, which stressed Santa even more. When he
went to harness the reindeer, he found that three
of them were about to give birth and two others had
jumped the fence and were out, Heaven knows where!
Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the
floorboards cracked, the toy bag fell to the ground and
all the toys were scattered. Frustrated, Santa went in
the house for a cup of apple cider and a shot of rum.
When he went to the cupboard, he discovered the elves
had drunk all the cider and hidden the liquor. In his
frustration, he accidentally dropped the cider jug, and
it broke into hundreds of little glass pieces all over the
kitchen floor. He went to get the broom and found the
mice had eaten all the straw off the end of the broom.
Just then the doorbell rang, and irritated Santa
marched to the door, yanked it open, and there stood
a little angel with a great big Christmas tree. The angel
said very cheerfully, 'Merry Christmas, Santa. Isn't this
a lovely day? I have a beautiful tree for you. Where
would you like me to stick it?' And so began the tradition
of the little angel on top of the Christmas tree.

Christmas Parade !!

Friday night was the annual Galax Christmas Parade.
The Shriners Kazim Hillbillys are always big highlight.
As you can see below, they always have there share of
fun. These two dudes were trying to sell this tree. The
sign says it comes "Wiff Lites"!! Hehehe They had a
small set of battery-powered lights on it and they would
turn them off and on. Great fun!! I might have to join
them someday!!
Ya can't forget the old crazy cars they drive too. They
have them fixed to where they barely run, and are always
back-firing and blowing lots of smoke!!

Natalie Hides Again !!

What a pile of laundry waited on us when we returned!!
Not really. The house hadn't warmed up yet and Natalie
was cold so Susan covered her up with the warm towels
that had just came out of the dryer. Can you find her??!!

So..........

....after spending most of Thanksgiving day with both
sides of Susan's family, we took off for the ocean!!
We enjoyed the beach several times, finished up
most of the Christmas shopping, enjoyed great
accomodations and just relaxed for a few days.
For Sunday we found a church that was putting
on a Christmas program with hand-bells. They
did a wonderful job with them!

I Am The Stuffing !!! How 'Bout You??

You're complicated and complex, yet all your pieces fit together. People miss you if you're gone - but they're not sure why.

What Part of Thanksgiving Are You?

Stayin Alive !!

A cowboy told his grandson the secret to a long life.
He said, "You gotta sprinkle a little gunpowder on your
oatmeal, see. If you do, you'll live to a nice ripe old age."

So the cowboy did this religiously every day, and sure
enough, lived to the nice ripe old age of 96.

When he died he left behind:
... 4 children
... 8 grandchildren
... 15 great-grandchildren
...
...and a 16 foot hole in the wall of the crematorium !!!

Uncle Ray Satterfield

Please say a prayer for Mom and the
rest of the Satterfield family. Uncle Ray
just passed away as a result of a heart attack!!
This is a total, total shock!! He was 55.
Please keep the family in your prayers!!

Happy Halloween !!

Just to make it very clear who the Hoch family
is voting for in a few days, I carved a pumpkin
to kinda give you a hint!! (I think it turned out real nice!!)

Wooo Hooo !!!!

'Twas the night before elections
And all through the town
Tempers were flaring
Emotions all up and down!

I, in my bathrobe
With a cat in my lap
Had cut off the TV
Tired of political crap.

When all of a sudden
There arose such a noise
I peered out of my window
Saw Obama and his boys

They had come for my wallet
They wanted my pay
To give to the others
Who had not worked a day!

He snatched up my money
And quick as a wink
Jumped back on his bandwagon.
As I gagged from the stink

He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling his cart
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart!

'On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, On Pelosi'
He screamed at the pairs!

They took off for his cause
And as he flew out of sight
I heard him laugh at the nation
Who wouldn't stand up and fight!

So I leave you to think
On this one final note-
IF YOU DONT WANT SOCIALISM
GET OUT AND VOTE!!!!

A Halloween story !!

A man is walking home alone late one foggy Halloween
night, when behind him he hears:
BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP...


Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he
makes out the image of an upright casket banging its
way down the middle of the street toward him.
BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP...


Terrified, the man begins to run toward his home,
the casket bouncing quickly behind him.
FASTER...
FASTER...
BUMP...
BUMP...
BUMP..


He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens
the door, rushes in, slams and locks the door behind
him. However, the casket crashes through his door,
with the lid of the casket clapping.
clappity-BUMP...
clappity-BUMP...
clappity-BUMP...
on his heels, as the terrified man runs.


Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, he locks himself in.
His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is
coming in sobbing gasps.


With a loud CRASH the casket breaks down the door.
Bumping and clapping toward him.



The man screams and reaches for something, anything,
but all he can find is a bottle of cough syrup! Desperate,
he throws the cough syrup at the casket...
and,




(hopefully you're ready for this!!!)





The coffin stops !!

Nobody Noticed !!

Well, I've had this picture posted now for five weeks and
no one noticed Mikayla and Natalie hidden in it. I wanted
to see if anyone was paying attention and................
See if you can find them. Mikayla is fairly easy, but Natalie
is a little harder!!

Shaving her Principal's Head!!

Mikayla was one of three students who made perfect scores on all
four of their SOL tests at the end of last school year. The principal
made a deal with the kids that if any of them made perfect scores
he would have his head shaved. On Friday, they had an assembly
at the school and he kept up his end of the bargain. Mikayla got
to cut some of it off! The bottom picture shows him with his new cut!

Happy Anniversary !!!

Happy Anniversary to my wonderful wife of 15 years !!
Ever since the girls have been born, we have wanted a local
artist to do a hand sketch of them. He is an older gentleman
and is known fairly widely for his Appalachian and Bluegrass
themed pictures. He is a MASTER when it comes to drawing
people! I talked to him a couple of months ago (Susan didn't know)
and he said he could do it in time for our anniversary. I took
him a few pictures of the girls. Since Susan had lost both of her
Grandmas in the past year, I also took a picture of each one of
them and a picture of their houses. I told him kinda what I
was wanting. He said it would not be a problem.
Here is the final product!! It is simply perfect!! He did not miss
even one detail in the pictures! Everything looks EXACTLY like
it did in the pictures. Needless to said, Susan loved it very much!!
I turned out better than I had hoped! (Actual size is 20" x 17")
For more of his work click here - www.willardgayheart.com

Wedding of Susan's Nephew !!

This weekend, we went to Lexington Kentucky for the
wedding of Steven Smith and Lindsay Clark. Steven is
Susan's nephew from here in Galax. Both of our girls were
in the wedding. Mikayla was the Flower Girl and Natalie
was the Minature Bride. The wedding was very nice!!
It was held in a historic church in downtown Lexington, KY.

Here is a picture of the girls with Steven.



















Check out this picture of Natalie and the Minature Groom
peeking in the window as the Bride and Groom were having
pictures made!! (Can you spot the happy couple?)

Here are the girls outside the church !!

Father and Mother of the Groom !!

Mitch and Jeanette Smith